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The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08
Stree. Traced In ST. Petersbu,.o

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A correspondent of the st. James Ca
zette writes: IF civilization is to be
estimated by facility Of locomotion, st.
Petersburg is decidedly behindhand.
The streets although very wide, are
abominably paved with kidney-potato
stones-a bad material, to begin with,
and here very badly laid down; and be-
sides, there is very often a gutter in the
middle of a stre~et-crossing which would
throw one off the tiny drosky but for
the precautions taken by the natives.
The drosky is, as a street cab, even worse
than a Dublin car. It is like q very
small victoria; the horse is slow, the
driver is generally very stupid, there is
barely room for two persons, and no pro-
lection against rain As you stroll along
the quays you are astonished at first at
the number of couples driving in dros-
kies, he with his arm around her waist;
but this, you presently learn, is not be-
they are accounting it is a precau-
ton against being thrown out. But no
lady may drive in a drosky.
"At nine o'clock in the evening, the
fashionable hour for driving, the Islands,
q sort of park laid out in drives on the
far side of the Neva and reaching down
to the sea, are thronged with carriages.
IN lines two and three deep, Of the
greater folk Of St. Petersburg, who halt
their carriages at the Point to get out
and talk The coachmen are all dressed
alike, whether they drive private car
riages Q droskies, in d low-crowned
black hat, and = blue bed-gown tied
round the waist and thickly stuffed; it
being just as much a consideration for q
Russian Jehu to have q broad back as it
is to an English footman to have height.
The harness of the horses is peculiar
blue canvas reins, thin trappinfgs with
silver chains hanging about, especially
over the horses nose. But perhaps the
horses would look somewhat cart
IN English harness, for thev
are broadly built, with thick lees and
flowing long tails.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08
japanese railroads.

The Examiner reporter wa talking
last night to Heihachi Tanaka and Nao.
man Oyatsu, wealthy japanese on a toul
OF the globe, who had arrived at the
Palace, and the subject was railroads.
Roughly estimating" said the latter
gentleman, tive have now about five
hundred miles of railway in Japan and
we are at this moment building railroads
in twenty-four different places. Hitherto
u roads have been detached and dis
connected-a few miles projected here
and there. We are now uniting these
detached sections in continuous lines.
and pushing u with other lines as we'll.
Railway building is the topic uppermost
with everybody. The Mikado is most
enthusiastic regarding it. Ia the next
five years we shall have many railroads
constructed, and Toxic will be the great
centre. It has five already. Both mar
row and standard guage roads are being
built. We get the rails from various
countries, but chiefly from England and
Germany, as well as the cars and loco
motives from the latter. As we are a
very initiative people, however, we shall
be able - make . own cars and loco
motives in five years. Messrs. TaAaka
apd Oyatsu left their home in Toxic in
May, crossed the Indian Ocean, thence
to Marseilles, Paris, London and the
cities Of this country. we are now
faster than ever adopting American Gus
toms, Z said they. 1--WE are now wear
ing clothes in the same style and build
lng the same kind Of houses. We have
street cars in Toxic, and are going to
AVE 9 there and also in Naeasaki
ma other cities. The cars we get from
We would have had more
street cars ere this, but we use the jim
Flklsha, or man-strength car. It is a cart
N two wheels, drawn by a man. It is
1ery convenient. Japan is the only
that has it.o-Isan Francisco
sxansiner.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08
BuiLdtna Monuments.

Through life we build our monuments
OF honor, and perhaps, of fame;
The little and the great events
Are blocks of glory or of shame.
The modest, humble, and obscure,
Living unneticed and unknown,
May raise a shaft that will endure
Longer than pyramids of stone.
The carven statue turns to dust,
And marble obelisks decay,
But deeds of pity, faith and trust
No storms of fate can sweep away.
Their base stands on the rock of right;
Their apex reaches to the skies;
They grow with the increasing light
Of all the encircling centuries.
Our building must be good or bad;
In words WE speak, in deeds we do;
On sand or granite must be laid
The shaft that shows us false OF true.
How do we build-what can we show
For hours, and days, and years of toils
Is the foundation firm below?
Is it ON rock or sandy soil?
The hand that lifts the fallen up,
That heals a heart or binds a wound.
That gives the needed crust and cup,
Is building upon solid ground.
Is there a block of stainless white
Within the monumental well
On which the sculptured skill can write:
"He builded well, so should we allg"
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08
Traveller.
Ethan Aliens Pluck.

While Ethan Allen was a prisoner on
his passage to England closely confined
to his cabin he discovered that a pin or
wire that fastened one of his handouts
was broken. Extricating the pieces with
his teeth he was enabled to loosen the
bolt and set one hand at liberty, by the
aid of which and his teeth he soon had
both at liberty, and he was not long in
liberating his feet. But fearing a dis
covery might lead to worse treatment, he
replaced his irons, bolts and pins before
the arrival of his keepers 1t soon
general to take off and put on his irons
at pleasure. One day the captain wish
ing to afford the crew some merriment
ordered that Allen be brought on deck.
Hoping to brighten him the captain said
"There is a probability that the ship
will founder; if SO what will become of
us, especially you, Mr.. Allen, a rebel
against the king?" "Why," said Allen,
''that would be very much like our din
ner hour" "Why 500" said the captain,
not rejecting hat Allen was allowed to
come on deck only when the captain
awent down into his cabin to dine.
"Well, you see" answered Allen, I'D
be on my way up just d you woul&
be going below" This answer did not
please the captain and he bseea a regu-
Jar TRADE of abuse agaiq< the Ameri-
On people. 'In a short time" said the
csh6,in, "all the rebels will be in the
sSIte ituation as yourself" This was
to = uch for Allen, and, raising his
hands to his teeth, he soon snapped the
bolts and pins, took off his irons and
threw them overheard, seized the panic
stricken captain by the collar and threw
him headlong upon the deck. Then
turning to the affrighted crew he ex-
claimed in a voice of thunder, eff 1 am
insulted again during the voyage, m
sink the ship and swim ashore" This
exploit had ouch an effect on the captain
crew that no further insult was
offered to the general duri.g the voyage.
Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

Reports constantly reach the United
States Pension Office from different parts
OF the country about individual pension
ers who appear to be in perfect health
and are illegally drawing pensions.
These charges are at once turned over to
the Special Examiners for the localities
where these persons reside, and are gen.
orally found to be witROet foundation.
According to the Washington Post, a
recent case was that Of an officer Of the
Soldiers Home at Hampton, Va. Ah1as
vestigation of the case showed that the
officer had been shot through the side
of the head and the whole of his upper
jaw carried away, The wound was SO
skilfully dressed, however, that it healed
up, leaving only a slight scar on the side
of his face, and beyond this scar and a
slight imperfection in his speech there
was no intimation of the fact that the
entire framework of his face had been
shattered. Another case reported was
that of q prominent Ohio man who was
said to be drawing q pension without
cause. The special examiner found that
while to oil appearances the man was
perfectly sound, he was still suffering
from an old wound that he received dur
ing the war, and which unified him for
any kind Of physical exertion beyond
walking about his house and rendering
constant care and attention necessary.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08
VALPARAISO.
Things Noted by an American in
a Gillian City.
The Poems; the Police, Militia
and Fire Service.

A correspondent of the Detroit Free
Press says in a letter from Valparaiso
I watch from my consulate windows the
'peons" Qaborers), m carrying boxes
and bales which would stagger many OF
our porters, some riding on the ''near"
horse of q team of three, harnessed
abreast, the driver or rider with bare
legs and feet, but wearing a spur
strapped to his left foot, which he in
dustriously plies. Indeed, the animals
(the ~quadrupeds) seem accustomed to
the whip and spur, one of which is al
most every moment administered, and to
care little about them; the riders never
,, speak to their beasts. The police and
other mounted men ride steadily and APP
parently securely, but not in the Ameri-
f: can or English style. All persons here
aggrSerect and alert. That is especially
noticeable among the young, even chill
dren, who are robust and ''well set up"
The hands and feet of both sexes are re-
markably small and neat, ever those of
the laborers and mechanics being deli
cate and we'll formed.
The militia and fire services are eff
GENTLY discharged by young men, many
of good position, who are we'll drilled.
The fire service excuses from jury duty,
as 1t did with us before our paid depart
ment. The orders of all kinds to the
'bombercs" (pumpers) are given by the
bugle exclusively.
In speaking Of fires, l am reminded of
a curious regulation of law or custom of
the police. When a fire breaks out in
shop or dwelling, the owner or occupant
is promptly arrested, his guilt as an in
cendiary being presumed, and he.is held
for examination, or, in some favorable
cases, held to bail, until he can explain
the circumstances or prove how it was
that he did not fire his own house or
tenement. The presumption of inno-
cence obtaining at the common law does
not seem, at least in such cases, to exist
here, that presumption being reserved
and the guilty act assumed.
Speaking of local affairs, l saw some
days ago a considerable body of the mu-
police in full blue uniform, carry
ing rifles with fixed bayonets, white
helmeted and with a drum or
two marching in the centre of the city.
On inquiring the reason for their parade,
was informed that it was for the pur-
pose of making public a governmental
.1eScree. This was the reappointment for
shree Yeas of the present efficient Sin
endemic" or governor of this province.
The decree for such purpose is read aloud
~ the officer in command of the de-
achment at several principal points in s
city, and then published in the pa
'ers. I think it a good plan.
| want to tell the Detroit people how
o secure their saddle horses or dis
counting. Get a short strap with
louble buckles and strap the fore feet of !
he animal together just above the pas
ern. So they do here, where they ride
great deal, and then leave the horse
for any time in the public
without tieing. {
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08
Emotions In Animals.

Mr.. Romanes enumerates the follow
ing emotions as observable In animals
Surprise and fear, (mollusca); social
and parental feelings, industry, curl
osity, Gnsects); jealousy, anger, play,
affection, (ish, cephalopoda, reptiIes),
sympathy, hymen optera) !; pride, ter.
ror, birds; grief, hate, cruelty, benevo-
ience, (carnivora and ruminants) re-
venge and rage, monkeys and elephant) ;
shame, humor, deceit, tapes and dog.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

The statistician Of the Department Of
Agriculture at Washington, Mr.. j. r.
Dodge, reports that the average value Of
our dairy products, including milk. an
nually during the previous Eve years has
been 400, 600, 600. This year the value
ct this product is estimated at $3.50. 900, :
900. This exceeds the valRe Of our an
nnal wheat yield BY $40, OBJ, 900, and
comes next to corn, which is the most
valuable Of all d farm products. IN
1860 the value Of our entire dairy pro-
ducts wa about $50, 600, 900. The num-
Der of mich cows now ia use for dairy
purposes Il u, 900. 900. Mr. Dodge est;.
mates that each Of these vii rive It
least $50 gallons Of milk Id the wear
This would make the annual snppIy37
85Q, 000, 000 gallons, Of which about /
0oo,A 400, 900 gallons Is consumed III but
n making, and 700, 600, 900 gallons II
cheese making. The quantity of butter
produced u shout 4, $50, 600, 900 pounds.
md of cheese =, 500, 900 pounds. AS to
butter, % AZ per cent. Of our total BRO
duct q consumed " home and only / lie
per cent. shipped. This makes the
average annual consumption III is
pounds per capita Last year our shin
menfs Of cheese to the English market
fsaehed something over Sd. 900. 900
pounds valued at 50, l7a,00e. Yet, saws
the caltiFatoFs this magnificent Industry
As1saals g be seriously crippled il the
n-annlaesnFsTs Of oleomafgarine succeed
pealiag shc just suastsa bY
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

The members of the New York Stock
and Produce Exchanges are not p~articu-
larry chirpy when they speak of the
serious decline in the price of their
tickets of membership. Stock exchange
seats that were worth $34, 900 several
years ago are now down to, $50, 900, and
produce exchange seats hat climbed to
$4S00 just after the new exchange was
completed, are now floating about at
&fg00
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

The Chinese government, under the
iberalizing influence of the new regime
Of the young Emperor, has adopted a
curious and significant scheme of getting
at the bottom facts about civilization
outside the Flowery Empire. A dozen
distinguished young scholars will be Sc
lected upon competitive examination, in
which the chief test will be ability to
describe and apprehend the meaning of
novel things, and they will be sent
abroad for two years to study foreign
countries. Each will get a salasy of
$3.50 q month and $50 for an interpreter
and all tAatraveling expenses. Each
viii follow . particular bent in working
up things he knows the most about.
Monthly reports on topography, ethnSSa-
ogy, commerce, habits, morality, ind@s-
tries, ornaments, political institutions,
etc. will be forwarded to Pekin. Ait
the end Of two years the services of each
will BE- utilized in the Chinese govern
raent il such departments a. he studied
~ she most advantage, and those who
hare done best will get ennobled. When
one considers some Of the raw, untutored,
and indifferent officials that America
sends abroad, there rises just q scintilla
Of doubt whether the occident really
Hnonopolizes all the civilization of tho
world.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

The author of "Grandfather's Clock'
died recently in University Hospital,
London. The song is better known than
the writer of it, a Mr.. E. C. Bertrand,
who tried again and again but neve
afterward caught the public taste. He
was an actor, a theatrical manager, and
a dramatist. AS has generally been the
case with these music hall ditties, it was
the publishers who made a little fortune
out of the chance success of "Grand-
fathers Clock" not the author.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

An old Prussian law provides for the
annual distribution of prizes amounting
TO 10 and 30 marks to such physicians
and sanitary officials as shall have at
tempted, whether successfully or not,
the resuscitation Of apparently dead
persons. In the last four years IS such
prizes were awarded, the number Of
those cases in which the attempted re-
suscitation was successful being 26.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

A British sea captain says that the
whales are increasing in numbers SO fast
that accidents to ships from running into
them will be of frequent occurrence.
"A sailing ship under a ive-knot breeze
might as well strike a tree as an old bull
whale
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08
TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE

A centrally located and desirable bushes,
stand ON NJ in street, Opelousa, consisting
Of building su table for residence AMI sinai
store, and adjoining a bakery, being the
property next to the pc t-office. This prop
ca b and balance on term TO sui pu, claser,
APP y at this office or to Ms. Edmond C.
Dupre March 1851
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08
ST. MARY'S

OPELOUSASs La.
The course of instruction in this Institution embraces
English, French. Latin, Greek, Arithmetic, Algebra.
Geometry, Bookkeeping, Natural Sciences. History,
Geography, Penmanship, and great care is bestowed
on Christian Instruction.
TERMs:-Board and tuition per month Sis; Day
Scholars per month, SO, So or S4, according to class,
Glasses are resumed on Wednesday, September 18th,
1886. REV. G. AYMoND D. D.,
REV. F. j. RAYMOND
HENRY &. LEWIS,
Aug. 90. 1885. A. BLANC DUoUEsNAY.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08
FOR al Z.

A Fine Res dence, with all necessary out
buildings AMI improvements, and sufficient
land for SIN Il farm, a Looming the to:porate
Ii nits of Ope ou5 as, will be sol cheap.
Apply at this flee. d1 If
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

The increasing use Of American silk
has started several new enterprises. The
Rdustry seems to be entering upon a
more prosperous period.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

Missionaries in Persia are free to
prosecute their labors, but natives who
profess conversion to Christianity run
the risk of losing their heads.
, 1887-06-11

Walker, Miss E. G.. Huxley and Mr..
Il. Allen, Bliss Archer hndMr. Ycend
King, Miss Alice Clayton and Mr..
Gilbert Burgess, Miss kiIburne and
Mr.. w. P. johnson, Miss Edith
Sprague and Mr.. Leopold Turner.
Miss M. Lehman and Mr.. j. W.
Bromley, and Mrs. G. WylIie and
MI. Victor Ames. To find eight
graceful young ladies who could
dance we'll and would he sure TO
prove apt pupils in a gavotte SO old
as to be newer than the newest
c6tilIon, may have been not very
hard; but requirements on the male
side were less easily satisfied. Eight
young men Of height neither coming
short by a NAILS breath of six feet
o exceeding by a quarter of an inch
that altitude, every man of them
shaved rs close as his great grand
fathers portrait, all good dancers, all
of the magical ~ar-world, all fit for
models in the studios of their friends,
could not be picked like bIackberries.
Swords and three cornrred hats ON
the one part ard dcxterously or
ambidexterously managed fans on
the other-a rapid change from hand
TO handbeing executed with charming
precision in one Of the fgures-com-
pleted the pictorial quality of the
gavo,te, After a repetition of the
final movement, in which rapicrs were
drawn and crossed aloft to form a
~gIistrning arcade for the ladies TO
pass under, the gavolte melted away,
and the ballroom broke forth into
full glory Of characterization, colour,
and woven swiitness Of motion.
Dancing was kept mp till far into the
morning.
, 1887-06-11
Publication.

esHE Absentee tax having be.
CD come due on the 1st June, the
respective ATTORNEYS / re-
quested to transmit to the under
signed Commission Statements of
the Sugar crops made, as also of
the of houses owned by
Absentees, conformable with the
ordinances of 18th February 1917
and 22nd February 1866.
The returns, of which blanks will
be distributed, are to BIO forwarded
before the 18th June, after which
period report of those in default will
be made to the Government.
Royal Tax Commission, st. Croix 1st June
1887.
VAN BRAKLE, o. C. KNUDsEN,
HJORT.
, 1887-06-11
or DAT
for tie Colonial Councils Ordinary
Meeting, Monday 18th June 1887,
IL o'clock noon.

l.. Examination os pOtent of election
for 1st Member for Christiansted eds
Country District (Hagemann).
g.. 3rd Discussion ON Draft of Ordi-
nance concerning reports of births in
the island of St. Croix, with Amend
ments proposed by Government.
3. End Discussion on Draft of Ordi.
nance extendingth Law of End January
1871 concerning the Inspection ofcorpses
as modified, by the Law of 4th May
1875, to be valid in st. Cr0ix, with
Committee Report.
4. Election of two Planters as;Members
of the Commission to report to Govern.
ment on the prices of the produce of
the island, for guidance in fixing the
tariff.
5. Draft of a Petition to His Majesty
the King, proposed by 3rd Member
for Christiansted'S Country District
(Leevy.)
6. Introduction of and 1st Discussion
on Additional Money Bill to the Budget
for 1898 sub Item e. Divers Expen-
SEES annual support to Mrs. Lorentz).
Z. Draft Of a Petition to the Minister of
Finance, proposed by the 2nd, 3rd, and
9th Crown. Members Andersen, Faber,
and Petersen).
Colonial Council, St. Croix, 4th June
1887.
p. M. ANDERSEN,
Chairman.
, 1887-06-11
Translation.
Publication.

nT is hereby made known that
90 the Quarantine established on
the 10Th of March a. c. against the
Southern states of South America
has been extended to be valid against
Chilli.
Governments cretary's Office, st. Croix,
3rd June 1887.
VAN BRAKLE.
, 1887-06-11
UNCLAIMED LETTERS IN FREDE.
RIKSTED'S POST OFFICE.

PAID.
Francisco Viscayno y Avuiillo, Cathrine
Allen, James Best, George s. Duesler, Nj.
Floyd, Adelaide Richard, Eligiva Smith.
S.. l.. Schulin. S. A. Smith.
UNPAID.
Louisa Alednej, Louisa Elliott, Virginia
Fescoe, Petrine Griles, Louisa Joseph,
Waldemar Jensen, Henry MOralis, w. &.
MacKay, n. w. ThOmberg, Petersen
Thnmbo, Sarah IRWIN.
FrederikSted's Post Office, ST. CrOix,
May 3lst 1887.
l.. RICHTER.
, 1887-06-11
p. M. ANDERSEN.
Chairman.
UNCLAIMED LETTERSN cHRISTIASSqEUS POST OFFICE.

Mrs. William Wilson, Mrs. William
Hanson, Elaxander Phillip, Elizabeth Mar.
quest, Daniel Lee, Thomas Kevelaire,
William H. Mavis, Cathrine Williams.
UNPAID.
Isaac d. George, Mary Warrington,
Colridge Francis, Mary Williams, Antoneta
Williams. Cecilia w. Kaaland, Lizzie
Krause, Menig No. 70 Jensen, Bertrand
A. LeBrun, Joseph Elcock, Martha Will
liamS.
Christiansted's Post Office, ST. Croix,
3ISt May 1887.
PETER LEMMING,
est.